Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 2Terraria$0.10/1hr105h97.30%97.38%
- 3ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr110h83.36%83.33%
- 4TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 5Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 6Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 7The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr63h94.75%96.04%
- 8Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 9Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 10Space Engineers$0.23/1hr89h88.62%88.85%
- 11The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 12Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 13Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 14ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.39%79.83%
- 15Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 16Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr40h85.45%85.43%
- 17Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 18Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 19Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 20Ostranauts$0.41/1hr49h84.41%80.55%
- 21Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 22Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.42/1hr48h80.03%78.45%
- 23Core Keeper$0.42/1hr48h91.96%92.95%
- 24Necesse$0.42/1hr36h91.04%93.07%
- 25Don't Starve Together$0.43/1hr35h94.77%94.94%
- 26SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 27Dinkum$0.47/1hr42h90.21%91.85%
- 28Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.65%96.55%
- 29Raft$0.55/1hr36h92.82%93.02%
- 30Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 31Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.62/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 32Forager$0.63/1hr32h88.76%89.51%
- 33I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h85.22%84.71%
- 34ICARUS$0.69/1hr10h75.84%74.37%
- 35METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.72/1hr25h78.32%65.78%
- 36Aloft$0.76/1hr25h84.66%83.79%
- 37Nova Lands$0.82/1hr24h86.09%89.26%
- 38Voidtrain$0.83/1hr22h79.43%73.70%
- 39The Forest$0.84/1hr24h95.39%95.53%
- 40Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 41Longvinter$0.95/1hr21h77.66%67.42%
- 42Volcanoids$1.14/1hr18h83.87%82.68%
- 43CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr5h83.02%81.27%
- 44Tribes of Midgard$1.19/1hr17h79.14%76.42%
- 45The Front$1.21/1hr17h75.86%66.93%
- 46DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr12h82.04%72.44%
- 47Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr15h77.26%65.70%
- 48Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.62/1hr12h77.17%71.13%
- 49Stranded Deep$1.64/1hr12h76.15%74.19%
- 50Arctico$2.23/1hr4h82.03%70.29%
- 51DeadPoly$2.97/1hr3h82.22%77.68%
- 52Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.77%48.54%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.